Again with This Crap?

Evidently, stops being down 85% and homicides being up nearly 80% aren't enough:

• The number of street stops by the Chicago Police Department has plummeted by 85 percent in a year, but African-Americans continued to account for the vast majority of those detained and frisked, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.

Really? And why is that do you think?

Whoops - how did that get there?

• That’s the case even though African-Americans were no more likely to be found with weapons or drugs than people of other racial backgrounds, the Sun-Times found by analyzing data on stops collected by the department for the first time in 2016.
  
  The police reported stopping thousands of people because they fit the description of a criminal suspect, were found near the scene of a crime, or acted in a manner deemed “indicative” of drug dealing.
  
  In most cases, officers checked a box on their reports for “other” to explain the justification for the stop. The department hasn’t released records to show whether further details were provided.

Well if the ACLU isn't bitching, you can probably guess everything is A-Okay with them.

• “It’s kind of a double-edged sword,” says Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th), chairman of the Chicago City Council’s Black Caucus. He says many of his South Side constituents would like the police to be more aggressive in searching for guns.
  
  But Sawyer says he’s concerned the police continue to stop people without a “reasonable suspicion” of a crime, which is required for an investigatory stop to be constitutional.
  
  “Were the reasons legitimate?” the alderman says. “Or is it still ‘walking while black?’ ”

You mean like certain CongressCritters profiled for "driving while black"? Oh wait - those cops were cleared after a politically charged investigation and not a single scrap of evidence could be located to railroad them.

• Police spokesman [some guy] says the department tries to safeguard rights as it protects the public: “Good policing and civil rights are not mutually exclusive.”
  
  [some guy again] notes that “most of CPD’s investigatory stops occurred in high-crime areas, primarily on the South and West Sides, precisely in the districts driving violence.”

Which are predominantly......go ahead spokesweasel.....you can say it.....they all know.

So evidently, the Sun Times is trying to drive that remaining 15% down into single digits, thereby increasing the homicide count and giving Mope-rah another few years of semi-relevancy.